Rachel Yoder, a young Mennonite writer who is finishing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Iowa, offers a brief essay on the mysteries of the body in Brevity.
Inspired by a weird object from her Mennonite childhood--the "hair patty"--or bun form that her aunts used when putting up their hair, Rachel has created a mini-essay that takes material culture to new places!
Consider finding an object from your own past that provokes a creative meditation, and using it as a prompt for your own creative essay--or the personal essay due when you get back from break.
Read Transubstantiate, Rachel's brief essay.
Read Rachel's discussion of how she wrote this brief essay on Brevity's blog.
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